Spirit Clothtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-5338972017-09-20T11:43:53-04:00Jude Hill...stitching a story because it seems I might be able to communicate something through cloth making. I hope so. TypePad Today, part 2- Love Notestag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8bd453ef01b7c9221bbb970b2017-09-20T11:43:53-04:002017-09-20T20:02:52-04:00Inspired by Liz. I've decided it might be nice to include a bit of story with my work when it goes into the shop. Or not. As a habit. In a love note format. Even if it is just a...jude

I've decided it might be nice to include a bit of story with my work when it goes into the shop. Or not. As a habit. In a love note format. Even if it is just a note to self. I've also realized that when I post in handwriting it cannot be translated or searched. I should rethink a lot of things if my efforts to communicate (and not just be interesting) are true. And I really want to consider that word interesting.

I went to the post office to buy stamps. The woman behind the counter asked "which kind would you like?" Before I even realized it I had said " anything without a F***ing flag on it!" I got looks. Could have been for many reasons.

Anyway, the small nine is called Sympathetic Transformation. It happened as I imagined bigger wind.

The note reads:

I could continue in

this way forever,

it was very simple really,

with no real attempt at

wing, but simply a wisp

of silk. Like a leaf

blown across my path.

edges blurred. Suddenly clarity.

The ripple of the stitch

helped it vibrate.

Love

Adding Bodytag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8bd453ef01bb09af53e7970d2017-07-16T08:16:43-04:002017-07-16T08:16:43-04:00Eye Woman. Continued from here, here, here, and then here... in case you forgot by now. Part of the evolving Stands like a Woman series. All to be quite consistent in size. About 12" square. I guess this one will...jude

In cloth making, changes and revisions are more easily understood in relationship to mending. But really, over time, I have come to define design AS mending. An adjustment to what is, making anything more useful for whatever the purpose. More beautiful to you because of that. We live and mend. Until we can't. Maybe then we might still share the ways.

Considering Composition and Constructiontag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c8bd453ef01bb09aef12e970d2017-07-15T08:07:31-04:002017-07-15T08:07:31-04:00Composition (idea building) and Construction( technique/materials and methods) are obviously linked together. They limit one another or not. There is so much for me to say about the link between form and technique. I need to gather my thoughts a...jude

Front and back so far. I just added the flower component and again cut from the back.

The green strip along the bottom is super thin so I will leave the backing behind it.

A serious maker soon learns that methods cannot be static if form is to evolve. And although making often seems like magic, if technique is shared openly it all becomes so much more than a bag of tricks. Technique is a story of how it might have happened, how it happened, how it moved through you and how useful that became . Or not. The magic is in the gift of the story. Your truth is your value. No thing can replace that. At least that is what moved through me today.